Diverse Populations
Essays

Marketing Forces and Diversification Diversity and competition among caregivers are driving forces for defining major ethnic target groups in the community, targeting marketing to those groups and tailoring health care to the needs of those groups. An astute and successful example is given in Noonan's and Savolaine's article about a Midwestern community hospital. Aware of the community's increasing diversity and mindful of rigorous competition among health care providers, the community hospital was not content with service area analysis of ethnicities and cultures; rather, the hospital endeavored to garner specific data about the ethnicity of obstetric patients who were discharged and physician's specific information regarding the ethnicities of their patients. Using this data, the hospital defined 4 major ethnic target groups and proceeded to intelligently market to those groups while tailoring the health care experience to those groups. The result was continued quality of care above the national average and increased patient satisfaction, even as the obstetric patient population significantly increased. The intelligence and success of those marketing and health care measures to better attract and serve a diverse community should compel a hospital CEO to incorporate the same approach to better attract and service diverse ethnicities and cultures in his/her own community.

The impact that personality has on the ability to forgive has been a topic of much debate for many years. Many experts believe that certain personality traits can make an individual more susceptible to forgiveness.

Complementary and Alternative Medicine and CISM in Diverse Populations

Constitution of the United States must be understood within the broader cultural, historical contexts in which it was drafted and ratified. The most basic explanation of the "original intent" of the Constitution is that…

Imagine your school is offering a $10,000 grant to purchase technology related to literacy instruction. This proposal details the rationale for purchasing twenty iPads, cases, and apps for the second grade at a small, rural New England elementary school that has been identified as "at-risk" because of failure to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) standards. A sample lesson shows how technology could be integrated in a literacy program.

According to Michael Bartone's article "Cultural applications: Ideas for teacher education programs," adequate preparation for teachers demands a multifaceted approach to the instructor's education.

Modern healthcare and nursing are more complex than ever before. The nurse’s role is far more than simply an assistant, and requires the understanding and application of a large toolbox to deal with many different situations within the course of any given time period. It is a given that nurses require clinical knowledge, however, they also require skills in patient advocacy, comnication, and business in order to be successful.

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Muslim Americans are not a large part of the U.S. culture, but their numbers are growing. These are people who moved to America from Muslim countries and kept their religious and cultural beliefs, or people who were…

¶ … education preparing for this leg of career development. I not only attained undergraduate work in Psychology and obtained my B.A. But I have fine tuned my value to this program by working in fields that dovetail…